Today, I had a lot of fun at my daugther's elementary school, where I talked about the importance of healthy soils and the beauty of soil organisms (which is easy if one has the fantastic photos of @frankashwood.bsky.social). Next generation of soil scientists is secured I hope 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

...and the honor of the first sample goes to... @peterkuehn37.bsky.social 🥳

HERE WE ARE!!! For Tübingen #DBG2025, we offer - for the first time - a dedicated conference app, accessible directly via QR code. Enjoy rapid updates, navigation through our exciting sessions & orchestrate your own programme. We look forward to welcoming you at the @unituebingen.bsky.social.

Dear all (members of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social, of @unituebingen.bsky.social & citizens of #Tübingen): Happy to announce that our academic celebration event of the #DBG2025 is open for public - offering 2 invited scientific presentations (engl.) & awarding ceremonies (ger). Feel warmly invited!

One of my favorite parts of the conference 😋. Looking forward to being in Tübingen in 2 days and seeing all my soil science friends (and tasting some yummy 🍰 with them)

🚨 Call for session proposals! The #EGU26 SSS Division is accepting ideas for sessions. Help shape the programme: 🌱 soils, sustainability, climate, land use, and beyond. 📅 Deadline: 16 Sept 2025 🔗 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/provis... #SoilScience #EGU_SSS #ECS #ScienceCareers

Hey @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, @geoderma.bsky.social is one of my absolute favorite journals, but receiving a review request on a Saturday, 7:01 a.m. and then a reminder on Monday morning 7:14 a.m. ("why haven't you replied in the past 48 h of your weekend???") is beyond annoying 😑.

Dear #DBG2025 participants, ready to explore the latest downloads? Grab the programme booklet as PDF at tinyurl.com/nhdu5jn3. Check out our exciting programme: onsite registration possible! Download your DBG 2025 Excursion Guide at tinyurl.com/4389v37h (printed copy on site). Few last spots left 🙂

What an absolutely fantastic visualization of global atmospheric CO2 concentrations 🤩 (even if one can't help but wonder if the contribution of biocrusts in drylands was adequately captured 😅): svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5196/

Please repost: TERRA is announcing its Coordination Office - FIVE POSITIONS (Coordination, PublicRelations, Education, ScienceDialogue, DataMangement). Check tinyurl.com/yc5jrrp2. Please share, apply & join the TERRA team 😀 #AcademicJobs, #ResearchJobs, #UniJobs, #ScienceJobs, #JobPosting, #HigherEd

Want to learn to write fast R code—and support Ukraine while doing it? Join my workshop Thursday, August 28th 6-8 pm CEST! We’ll cover profiling & benchmarking, and take a tour of fast packages like data.table, collapse, Rcpp and more... With plenty of code examples & hands-on practice! #rstats

Had a great time with my friend Steffen Seitz of @unituebingen.bsky.social and our visitor Alon Nissan of @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social. My second very fruitful scientific exchange this year that was made possible by @euerasmusplus.bsky.social 😊.

doi.org/10.1007/s105... "Life on Earth is not confined by our imagined political boundaries between one country and the next, between one state and the next... "

One of the cool things about Hanover is that within only a few km distance, one can find one of the worst soils of 🇩🇪 (podzol: 21/100 points) and one of the best soils (chernozem: 96/100). Of course, both are equally beautiful 😍, irrespective of how fertile they are

🌱 Wageningen University & Research is hiring at the Soil Science Cluster! 🌍 We are looking for a full professor and chair of the Soil Physics and Land Management (SLM) group — a team with an outstanding international reputation in research and education. Please share! 🔗 lnkd.in/e5BeZ9gS

Now THAT is what I call a proper soil pit 😅. Visited my wonderful colleagues @franzibucka.bsky.social and Nele Meyer of @goetheuni.bsky.social today to admire this beautiful loess soil profile (including "little" traces of bioturbation 🦡)

Our next community meeting is on Tuesday! Please join us to learn all about eLabFTW version 5.2, which has many new exciting features and tools 🔬⚗️🔭🧪⚛️

Dear Soil Science friends! There are so many brilliant geoscientists out there who deserve a recognition for their excellent research (e.g. the Alina Kabata-Pendias Medal of the @egu-sss.bsky.social). If you know somebody who you think should get one of the awards, please nominate them 👇

Die DFG hat den chancengleichen Zugang zu allen Förderprogrammen und die Vielfalt in der wissenschaftlichen Bestenauswahl zu zentralen Zielen gemacht. Entscheidend dabei: die Anerkennung verschiedener Lebenswege und deren Einflüsse auf die Karriere:⬇️ www.dfg.de/chancengleic... #DiversityTag #DDT2025

To all #soil #scientists out there, you can follow the EGU Soil System Sciences Division here 👇 bsky.app/profile/egu-... Lets grow up in this much more safe space for science 😇 @egu.eu @egu-sss.bsky.social

Had a brilliant time at the Baltic Sea the past two days with colleagues from Uni Rostock and my great student Tobias from @unihannover.bsky.social. We measured #biocrust stability in the field and want to find out if we can correlate coastal dune stability with hyperspectral imaging data.

Bleibt Menschen

Erdüberlastungstag in 🇩🇪 am 3. Mai (!) und der designierte Landwirtschaftsminister (CSU) hält es für eine gute Idee, die Massentierhaltung zu stärken und will wieder mehr 🥩 in Kitas und Schulen... 🤦‍♂️

If you're interested in #micropastics in soils, don't miss our seminar today by Dr. Collin Weber of TU Darmstadt: "Environmental Baseline Pollution of Microplastics in Soils" You can join online using the webex link on our homepage: www.iesw.uni-hannover.de/de/institut/...

I gave a presentation about #biocrust showcasing articles from Frontiers topic on "spatio-temporal development and ecological functions of #soil surface #microbial communities across different scales". We got 25 articles, see the editorial. www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... More to follow...

just going to leave this here: youtu.be/JZRcYaAYWg4?...

...wirklich erschreckend 😳

Preparations for our state-wide soil excursion are in full flow. Very much looking forward to when this is finally ready. Stay tuned if you want to learn more about the soils of Hesse 🤠

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It starts with preprinting everything @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, obviously.

Flying home after a great week in Florence, where I did a @euerasmusplus.bsky.social lecturer exchange, taught about the use of CT in soil science and even got to see the new CT scanner of Uni Firenze 🤓

What was that? You always wondered how desert isopods affect soil C flux and microtopography of biological soil crusts? Look no further 😅: I'm happy to share the latest paper in @geoderma.bsky.social with @nevosagi.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

📣GSBI Speaks is back this February! Join us to learn about remote sensing and sensing to measure soil biodiversity 📸🎥🐛🐜🦠🪱 Feb. 21, 2025, 9:00 MST, 11:00 EST, 16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET Register 👇 https://buff.ly/4h4Vuf4

Eine Filmpremiere über die Bedeutung der Moore am 26.01.2025 um 11:30 Uhr im Cinema Arthouse, Osnabrück. Weitere Einzelheiten unter: umweltforum-osnabrueck.de/event-detail...

It was really great to welcome @inesmulder.bsky.social of @ruhr-uni-bochum.de yesterday here at her alma mater and learn more about her exciting research on the effects of disinfectants in soils.

Jetzt ist es ganz klar: Wenn Sie wollen, dass Deutschland von internationalen Oligarchen regiert wird, dann wählen Sie AfD

Nach Wahlwerbung für AfD: Elon Musk stellt neuen Sprung vor

Excited to announce the next International Biocrust Reading Group Meeting! 🪴🌍 We'll meet on January 7th at 17:00 GMT to discuss the latest in biocrust research. Interested in joining? Send me a message! #Biocrust #Ecology #ScienceCommunity @michalaphillips.bsky.social

If you missed today's webinar on biocrusts, check it out on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O91...

Starting soon: Biological soil crusts 🔗online Seminar convened by @thegsbi.bsky.social@thegsbi.bsky.social #microsky

List of the wonderful people working with biocrust. Let me know if you want in on the fun. All biocrust enthusiasts are invited!

📣GSBI Speaks is back this December. Join us in the second of the series to learn about the role of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) in soil 🎉 Dec. 12, 2024, 7:00 MST, 9:00 EST, 14:00 GMT, 15:00 CET Register 👇 zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Happy World Soil Day!! #WSD #worldsoilday #mite #mesofauna #macro #macrophotogrpahy

Heute ist #Weltbodentag 🫵 Am 5. Dezember, jedes Jahr wieder - für mehr #Bodenschutz #WSD #worldsoilday #wsd2024 #Boden #Böden (Bild hat die KI gemacht 🥳😜)

Letzte Woche habe ich alte Freunde in der Bodenkunde der @ruhr-uni-bochum.de besucht 🤗, das vorweihnachtliche 🎅🎄 Bochum genossen und die wissenschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen Bochum und Hannover ausgebaut 🤓. www.geographie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/news/2024/ne...

Rhizosphere6 will be held 15-19 June 2025 in beautiful Edinburgh. Website to launch soon. Here’s the landing page. www.rhizo6.org

...very happy to see so many of my #biocrust friends joining this place every day 🤩

🚨Welcome all new users! I am looking for a #PhD student to with on the #microbiome of #soil #fauna. #'omics, #isotopes, all that jazz. Please repost!

Seeing all my old friends on here again

Quick public service announcement: If you're planning to attend next year's DBG conference in Tübingen (stay tuned for updates!), please make sure to book your hotel a.s.a.p., as rooms are very much limited at this time of the year. We look forward to meeting you all there 😀